National Rose Gardens

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December 2025

With inground works almost complete, in November works progressed to planting over 3000 new roses.  

The new gravel pathway for the rose beds has commenced and topsoil added to level the area for new grass. As landscaping works draw to an end sections of fencing will be removed. 

Summer Sunday Sessions Series - National Carillon

Harrison Whalan

 

Featured songs: Summertime by George Gershwin, In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington, Silent Night by Franz Xaver Gruber

 

The Summer Sunday Sessions Series will showcase the range and repertoire of the National Carillon through classical and contemporary favourites, as well as music written expressly for the carillon. 

The series will also provide opportunities for carillonists to continue to test new instrumentation installed earlier this year as part of the refurbishment of the carillon.